* Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We can of course bike shed / benchmark this once my desktop refresh
> > sports this feature, but ISTR this being one of the very first things
> > Ingo mentioned when we started this whole 5L thing.
>
> I would rather not fix the problem that may not actually exist. :)
That 5 level pagetables involve more overhead is a realy problem.
By default we should only enable 5-level paging if memory mappings exist in
the memory map that require the extended physical memory space.
Thanks,
Ingo